He was speaking at the launch of the retail chain's first gourmet store - covering an area of 1,500 square feet - in the city.

The store offers 4,000 products including a wide range of confectionaries, fresh fruits, vegetables, pastas, as also ingredients to cuisines of Thailand, China, Indonesia, America, Chile and Italy.

The retailer plans to open six more such gourmet stores in Gurgaon, Bangalore and Mumbai by the end of this fiscal at an investment of Rs.3 crore and expects a revenue of Rs.4 crore per annum, Goenka said.